Teofilo Farina

Teofilo Farina was an Italian man who was the lover of the Borgia mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei during the late 1490s. Vannozza, having taken a break from her relationship with Pope Alexander VI, took the much younger Farina (who worked in her vineyard) as her lover, but Lucrezia Borgia later discovered Farina being unfaithful to her, and she informed her mother. Vannozza, who had promised her hand in marriage to Farina, cast him away from her home without a penny, so Farina sued her in front of the Pope. The Pope did justice, ignoring his relationship with Vannozza, and he made her pay Farina 500 ducats as penance.